its been a good 5 weeks since i went fishing last and as it would have it, all the moons , suns alligned for a perfect days fishing in augusta. as my wife were tagging along an early start would be near impossible but we were at the ramp by . with no wind predicted all day i was very very excited. after giving my wife a quick run down on how to be a good deckie we tackled the worst boat ramp in australia , flinders bay.

on the way out we collected skippy, herring, scalies (and sand whiting just in case we caught no decent fish) for fresh bait. all the whole way out we saw Salmon,bonito,tuna bust up bait. could not get within casting distance of the balls, fish got spooked. then we hit some lumps on the other side of the island and after a few drifts my wife nailed a 50cm harlequin on her new saragosa 8000. lucky for her ive never caught one. Then i hit a 55cm breaksea cod. And well thats the new bag limit 2 high risk fish( i was the only one with a license) got some big skippy aswell.

also the river has been doing well for size 35cm and under,,,, king geroge whiting.  very few and far between yellow fin whiting. no crabs either.

also rumour has it that this winter the river will be sealed with sand and busted open when rains fill the river to the rim.for a long time the river has not being emtying and filling with the tides because of the mouth has been slowly closing. hopefully the govt can follow through with this project to give this huuugggeee waterway a second chance. Augusta,s lively hood is fishing and this small town sure does need the tourism.